On 27/03/2004 11:43 George N. White III wrote:
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Paul Thomas wrote:
> Whilst I view the whole situation as a pointless swabble between a few > disfunctional bozos with over-inflated egos, I do wonder what the > XFree86 folks are going to if no-one uses their software...
XFree86 was successful due to the efforts of many people who are not part of the squabble. The effect of this will be to make people less willing to invest effort in projects without better assurances that the license terms won't be changed contrary to the spirit in which their contributions were made.
Yes, I'm sure you're right. The crazy thing from my point of view is that the XFree86 1.1 license is virtually identical to the Apache license. IANAL but the whole thing stinks to me.
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